USPS Board Of Governors Sets Agenda For February 8 & 9 Meetings
Board of Governors; Sunshine Act Meeting
DATES AND TIMES: Wednesday, February 8, 2012, at 10 a.m.; and Thursday, February 9, at 8:30 a.m. and 10:30 a.m.
PLACE: Washington, DC, at U.S. Postal Service Headquarters, 475 L’Enfant Plaza SW., in the Benjamin Franklin Room.
STATUS: Wednesday, February 8 at 10 a.m.–Closed; Thursday, February 9 at 8:30 a.m.–Open; and at 10:30 a.m.–Closed.
MATTERS TO BE CONSIDERED:
Wednesday, February 8 at 10 a.m. (Closed)
1. Strategic Issues.
2. Financial Matters.
3. Pricing.
4. Personnel Matters and Compensation Issues.
5. Governors’ Executive Session–Discussion of prior agenda items and Board Governance.
Thursday, February 9 at 8:30 a.m. (Open)
1. Approval of Minutes of Previous Meetings.
2. Remarks of the Chairman of the Board.
3. Remarks of the Postmaster General and CEO.
4. Appointment of Committee Members and Committee Reports.
5. Quarterly Report on Financial Performance.
6. Quarterly Report on Service Performance.
7. Tentative Agenda for the March 21, 2012, meeting in Washington, DC.
Thursday, February 9 at 10:30 a.m. (Closed–if needed)
1. Continuation of Wednesday’s closed session agenda.
CONTACT PERSON FOR MORE INFORMATION: Julie S. Moore, Secretary of the Board, U.S. Postal Service, 475 L’Enfant Plaza SW., Washington, DC
20260-1000. Telephone (202) 268-4800.
Julie S. Moore,
Secretary.
source: Federal Register
Thurgood Marshall, Jr. Elected Chairman of USPS Board of Governors
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Mickey D. Barnett Will Serve as Vice Chairman
WASHINGTON — At yesterday’s meeting of the U.S. Postal Service Board of Governors, Thurgood Marshall, Jr., was elected chairman and Mickey D. Barnett was elected vice chairman. Marshall, the Board’s current vice chairman, will succeed Chairman Louis J. Giuliano, who has served as chairman since January 2010 and will continue to serve as a governor. Marshall and Barnett will assume their new leadership roles during the Board’s next meeting in December.
Marshall is an attorney in Washington, DC and former member of the White House senior staff in the Clinton Administration. He was appointed a governor by President George W. Bush on Dec. 15, 2006. He currently serves as chairman of the Government Relations and Regulatory Committee and as a member of the Audit and Finance Committee.
Barnett is an attorney and former New Mexico state senator. He was appointed a governor by President George W. Bush on Aug. 17, 2006 and currently serves as a member of the Audit and Finance Committee and the Compensation and Management Resources Committee. Governor Barnett lives in Albuquerque, NM.
Bios of all the Governors are available at: http://about.usps.com/who-we-are/leadership/board-governors-bios.htm#p=1
USPS Board Of Governors Agenda Set For November 15th Meeting
WASHINGTON — The Board of Governors of the U.S. Postal Service will meet Nov. 15 in open session at Postal Service headquarters, 475 L’Enfant Plaza, SW. The public is welcome to observe the meeting beginning at 1:30 p.m. in the Ben Franklin Room on the 11th floor. The Board is expected to discuss the following items:
- Approval of minutes of previous meetings
- Remarks of the Chairman of the Board
- Remarks of the Postmaster General and CEO
- Committee reports
- Consideration of Fiscal Year 2011 10-K, Financial Statements, Annual Report, Comprehensive Statement and Annual Performance Plan
- Consideration of Fiscal Year 2012 Integrated Financial Plan
- Consideration of Final Fiscal Year 2013 Appropriation Request
- Quarterly report on service performance
- Tentative agenda for Dec. 13 meeting in Washington, DC
- Election of Chairman and Vice Chairman of the Board of Governors
Open session meetings of the Board of Governors are available on live audio webcasts at http://about.usps.com/news/electronic-press-kits/bog/welcome.htm. Three hours after the conclusion of the open session meeting, a recorded audio file will be available for listening. In compliance with Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act, the audio webcast will be open-captioned.
CFO Briefing
Following the Board’s open meeting on Nov. 15, Chief Financial Officer Joe Corbett will host a telephone/web conference call to discuss the financial results in more detail. The call will begin at 4 p.m. ET and is open to the news media and all other interested parties.
To attend by phone with audio only, dial 866-567-8049 (Meeting ID: 7411388).
To attend the web conference and join with audio:
- 1. Browse to http://meetingplace3.usps.gov/join.asp?7411388
- 2. After the MeetingPlace window is open, click the Phone icon (under the Participant List or in the upper right-hand corner).
- 3. Click Connect Me, validate or update your phone number and click Connect Me again.
- 4. When the system calls you press 1 to join.
The briefing will also be available on live audio webcast (listen only) at:
http://about.usps.com/news/electronic-press-kits/cfo/welcome.htm
USPS Board Of Governors Member Alan C. Kessler Resigns
From PRC: ” United States Postal Service Governor Alan C. Kessler has informed the Board of Governors that he will resign his position as a member of the Postal Service Board of Governors effective July 31,2011.”
USPS Bio: Governor Kessler was appointed a governor of the U.S. Postal Service in November 2000 for a term that expired in December 2008. He continued to serve as a governor under 39 U.S.C., Section 202(b), which provides for a governor to serve up to one year beyond the expiration of a term or until a successor is appointed. On December 4, 2009, President Obama appointed him to a second term that expires in December 2015. He served as chairman of the Board of Governors from January 2008 to January 2009, and as vice chairman from January 2005 to December 2007. He currently serves as chairman of the Governance and Strategic Planning Committee.
PMG Testifies APWU Tentative Agreement Will Save USPS $3.8 Billion
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Postmaster General, Governors, Testify before House Committee
WASHINGTON — The tentative labor agreement the U.S. Postal Service has reached with the American Postal Workers Union (APWU) is a “responsible” pact that is the “best possible outcome we could have achieved” under current law, Postmaster General Patrick R. Donahoe testified today before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
Donahoe noted, “It’s the nature of such negotiations that neither side got everything they wanted,” but with this contract he said the Postal Service was able to achieve its goals of “greater workforce flexibility, immediate financial impact and long-term structural changes.”
The tentative agreement, which now goes before the APWU members for ratification, would cover some 205,000 career postal employees for a four-and-one-half-year period up to 2015. Postal and APWU leadership have been negotiating the plan for the past eight months.
As written, the agreement provides immediate cost relief for the Postal Service as it freezes wages for the first two years. It establishes a two-tier career pay schedule for new employees that is 10.2 percent lower than the existing schedule and allows the increased use of non-career employees from 5.9 percent today, with restrictions, to some 20 percent unrestricted. The contract represents $3.8 billion in savings to the Postal Service.
Also testifying and expressing support for the plan was the chairman of the Postal Service Board of Governors, Louis J. Giuliano. “After many months of difficult negotiations, (the tentative agreement) was the best achievable under existing law.” He also expressed satisfaction that binding arbitration had been avoided. “Years of experience have taught us that these types of breakthrough changes in workforce utilization are very unlikely in an arbitrated settlement,” he said.
Underscoring the need to reach a “responsible” agreement, Donahoe told the committee that since 2008, the Postal Service has been responding aggressively to an unprecedented 21 percent decline in mail volume prompting a regimen of process improvements and personnel reductions. Since 2008, Donahoe said, “We have reduced 110,000 employees and $11 billion in costs.” Despite those efforts, however, in 2010, the agency recorded a net loss of $8.5 billion, the majority of which was not related to postal operations.
Donahoe stressed that postal finances would be far better but for an inflexible business model. “We need reform in the laws that govern us,” he said. “We must get beyond the mandates that we prefund retiree health benefits, that we overfund Federal Employee Retirement System (FERS) and that we deliver mail six days a week.”
A 2006 law requires the Postal Service to prefund retiree health benefits in amounts approximating $5.5 billion per year (an obligation unique to the Postal Service); the statutorily mandated formula employed to determine Postal Service contributions to the FERS has to date caused an overpayment of some $6.9 billion; and the legal requirement that the Postal Service deliver six days a week is costing the Postal Service $3.1 billion annually.
Noting that a ratified contract was preferable to binding arbitration, Donahoe pointed out that “Neither side was willing to take the expedient way out, to simply roll the dice, and leave our respective fates to a third party arbitrator. We need the flexibility to properly schedule our workforce and we have achieved that. Interest arbitration is not going to result in flexibility gains of this magnitude.”
Guiliano added, “We are hopeful that we will achieve further flexibility in our negotiations with our other three unions.”
The Postal Service receives no tax dollars for operating expenses, and relies on the sale of postal, products and services to fund its operations.
USPS Board of Governors To Hold Closed Meeting On March 22
DATE AND TIME: Tuesday, March 22, 2011, at 10 a.m.
PLACE: Washington, DC at U.S. Postal Service Headquarters, 475 L’Enfant Plaza, SW.
STATUS: Closed.
Matters To Be Considered
Tuesday, March 22, at 10 a.m. (Closed)
1. Strategic Issues.
2. Financial Matters.
3. Pricing.
4. Personnel Matters and Compensation Issues.
5. Governors’ Executive Session–Discussion of prior agenda items and Board Governance.
CONTACT PERSON FOR MORE INFORMATION: Julie S. Moore, Secretary of the Board, U.S. Postal Service, 475 L’Enfant Plaza, SW., Washington, DC
20260-1000. Telephone (202) 268-4800.
USPS Board Of Governors To Meet Feb. 9 In Washington, DC
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WASHINGTON — The Board of Governors of the U.S. Postal Service will meet in open session Feb. 9 at Postal Service headquarters, 475 L’Enfant Plaza, SW. The public is welcome to observe the meeting beginning at 8:30 a.m. in the Ben Franklin Room on the 11th floor. The Board is expected to discuss the following items:
Wednesday, Feb. 9, 8:30 a.m.
1. Approval of minutes of previous meetings
2. Remarks of the Chairman of the Board
3. Remarks of the Postmaster General and CEO
4. Appointment of committee members and committee reports
5. Quarterly report on financial performance
6. Quarterly report on service performance
7. Tentative agenda for the March 21-22 meeting in Washington, DC
USPS Board Of Governors To Meet In Closed Session Jan. 10 and Jan. 11
TIMES AND DATES: 4 p.m., Monday, January 10, 2011; and 9 a.m., Tuesday, January 11, 2011.
PLACE: Long Beach, California, at the Renaissance Hotel, 111 East Ocean Boulevard.
STATUS: (Closed).
MATTERS TO BE CONSIDERED:
Monday, January 10, at 4 p.m. (Closed)
1. Financial Matters.
2. Pricing.
3. Strategic Issues.
4. Personnel Matters and Compensation Issues.
5. Governors’ Executive Session–Discussion of prior agenda items and Board Governance.
Tuesday, January 11, at 9 a.m. (Closed)
1. Continuation of Monday’s agenda.
CONTACT PERSON FOR MORE INFORMATION: Julie S. Moore, Secretary of the Board, U.S. Postal Service, 475 L’Enfant Plaza, SW., Washington, DC
20260-1000. Telephone (202) 268-4800.
USPS Board Of Governors To Meet In Closed Session Dec. 7
DATE AND TIME: Tuesday, December 7,2010, at 9 a.m.
PLACE: Washington, DC, at U.S. Postal Service Headquarters, 475 L’Enfant Plaza, SW.
STATUS: Closed.
MATTERS TO BE CONSIDERED: Tuesday,December 7, at 9 a.m.
(Closed)
1. Financial Matters.
2. Pricing.
3. Strategic Issues.
4. Personnel Matters and Compensation Issues.
5. Governors’ Executive Session—Discussion of prior agenda items and Board Governance.
CONTACT PERSON FOR MORE INFORMATION:
Julie S. Moore, Secretary of the Board,
U.S. Postal Service, 475 L’Enfant Plaza,
Postal Service Board Recognizes Postmaster General Potter
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Postal Service Maintains Exceptional Service Record
WASHINGTON — Today marked Postmaster General John E. Potter’s last appearance before the Postal Service Board of Governors in open session. Potter recently announced his plan to retire in December. In tribute to his distinguished career, the Board today honored Potter with the prestigious Benjamin Franklin Award.
In his remarks, Louis Giuliano, chairman of the Board of Governors, praised Potter, characterizing his tenure as “the presence of a strong, steady hand at the wheel.”
“The Board is enormously pleased to have had a leader like Postmaster General Potter at the helm during this critical time,” said Giuliano. “He led the Postal Service through some of the most consequential moments since its founding. From the aftermath of the September 11 attacks and anthrax incidents to numerous natural disasters, and from deep recession to unprecedented technological change, Jack steered the ship through uncharted waters with remarkable dedication and skill.”
The Board has selected Deputy Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe to become the next Postmaster General.
Other Board Matters
The Board welcomed Governor Dennis Toner to his first open session of the Board. Toner, of Rehoboth Beach, DE, was appointed by President Obama and confirmed by the Senate Sept. 16. And the Board bid farewell to Carolyn Gallagher who has been a member of the Board for the past 7 years. During her tenure, Gallagher served as both vice chairman and chairman of the Board.
Also at today’s board meeting, Lou Guiliano was re-elected chairman and Thurgood Marshall Jr. was re-elected vice chairman.
Consumer Advocate Report
In other news, Vice President and Consumer Advocate Delores Killette presented Service Performance and Customer Experience Measurement (CEM) reports for the fourth quarter of 2010.
* 96.7 percent of single-piece First-Class Mail in overnight service areas arrived on-time, an improvement of 0.4 compared to the same time a year ago.
* 94.8 percent of two-day service area single-piece First-Class Mail arrived on time, and
* 93.7 percent of three-day service area single-piece First-Class Mail arrived on time.
The Postal Service implemented the Customer Experience Measurement (CEM) program at the start of fiscal year 2010, replacing the Customer Satisfaction Measurement (CSM) program that has been in place since 1991. CEM scores reflect end-to-end customer experience across all channels.
From the CEM ratings:
* 86.8 percent of residential customers rated their experience as “very satisfied” or “mostly satisfied,” and
* 82.0 percent of small/medium businesses rated their experience as “very satisfied” or “mostly satisfied.”
Separately, Killette noted that the Ponemon Institute ranking of U.S. Brands Americans Like Best showed that the U.S. Postal Service is ranked 15 on the list of the 20 most liked-brands, the only delivery service ranked in the top 20.
The Postal Service receives no tax dollars for operating expenses, and relies on the sale of postage, products and services to fund its operations.